(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)
Prelim and Main
1. Why dengue cases have surged this year in across the world READ MORE
2. PM-JAY Why is Assam boiling hot? Heat dome effect, say experts READ MORE
3. FRA implementation: Mankidia community becomes 6th PVTG to get habitat rights over forests in Odisha READ MORE
4. Unemployment rate stagnant, reveals government survey READ MORE
5. ‘Good beginning’: India on Pact of the Future’s language on UNSC reforms READ MORE
6. Centre to launch pilot project on urban poverty alleviation in 25 cities on October 1 READ MORE
7. If BMI is becoming an inadequate measure for health, is BRI the answer? READ MORE
8. Why has Bombay HC invalidated Centre’s proposed ‘fact-checking’ unit? | Explained READ MORE
9. Expanding Horizons in Space Sector: From Lunar Exploration to a National Space Station READ MORE
10. Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare organizes the National Conference on Implementing Digital Public Infrastructure under the Digital Agriculture Mission in New Delhi today READ MORE
11. Big boost to Anime & Manga culture and Creator Economy in India READ MORE
Main
GS Paper- 1
1. Women’s fight for equality expands to the digital space READ MORE
2. Rising suicides among Indian students in Canada READ MORE
3. Social media age limit: Will banning children be enough? READ MORE
GS Paper- 2
POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
1. A provision fraught with practical problems READ MORE
2. It is an offence: On Supreme Court clarification on online content on child sex abuse READ MORE
3. SC joins battle to protect children READ MORE
4. Is it better to be governed by an elected leader or appointed bureaucrat? READ MORE
5. No, Governor: RN Ravi forgets his constitutional responsibility READ MORE
6. The lure of ‘maximum government’ READ MORE
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. The perils of imparting higher education in local languages READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
1. Visit wrap-up: On PM Modi’s U.S. visit, announcements READ MORE
2. India at the UN Futures Summit: An advocate for peace, Global South READ MORE
3. A call for peace and reform READ MORE
4. The pursuit of peace in tumulous times READ MORE
GS Paper- 3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Navigating cross-border insolvency READ MORE
2. Time for private investment is now; delays risk economic competitiveness READ MORE
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. A long march to climate justice READ MORE
2. Dousing farm fires: Much more is expected of Punjab READ MORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. ANRF: A catalyst for India’s R&D READ MORE
INTERNAL SECURITY
1. Centre must pull Manipur back from the brink of ruin READ MORE
2. Centre, State to review scope of AFSPA in Manipur READ MORE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
1. The Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill, 2024: A city-centric analysis READ MORE
GS Paper- 4
ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY
1. How to live ordinary lives in extraordinary ways READ MORE
2. Ego-centred behaviours READ MORE
Questions for the MAIN exam
1. The primary objective of the NFRA has been to strengthen the financial ecosystem and ensure the credibility of financial statements. Discuss how far NFRA has been success in restoring trust in financial reporting?
2. There cannot be a state monopoly on facts in a democracy. Examine the statement in the light of recent Bombay High Court Judgement striking down government-mandated fact-checking unit
3. India’s strategic autonomy requires a tough balancing of its geographical realities, strategic interests, and relations vis-à-vis apparent friends and threats. How India can maintain balance between west and Russia?
4. Subsuming multi-tier elections into simultaneous mode has the potential to reduce the importance of each tier, especially the Assembly and municipal levels, and is anti-federal. Comment.
QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS
- There is a need to integrate perspectives on the importance of insolvency laws with global trade in multilateral or bilateral routes. Specifically, FTAs are incomplete without cross-border dimensions.
- There is a need to integrate perspectives on the importance of insolvency laws with global trade in multilateral or bilateral routes.
- An expansive judgment on child pornography plugs legal loopholes, offers a curative framework to deal with the crime.
- As the ego becomes aware of itself, it ends the behaviours that cause it suffering.
- While politicians better align expenditure with citizen preferences and deliver social assistance rapidly, bureaucrats are less prone to elite capture and excel at specialised tasks.
- The loss of credibility and trust in this vital component of the federal structure can have grave repercussions for the Centre-state relations.
- To restore normalcy in Manipur, it is imperative that President’s rule is imposed as people have lost faith in the state government, which is being seen as partisan.
- The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) will be required to be imposed in sensitive areas. Alongside, there is an urgent requirement for effective border management, given the turbulent conditions in the neighbourhood.
- While promoting local languages in higher education aims to increase inclusivity, it may also pose challenges to the quality of education.
- By advocating for reforms and prioritising global peace, India positions itself as a key player in international diplomacy.
- India stands ready to lead and contribute to a more stable and harmonious global community. India has also gained prominence as a peace maker and could emerge as a major negotiator in world arena.
- The `One Nation, One Election’ report is in its present form an impractical one and may harm federalism in the future in favour of a strong Centre.
- India needs to ramp up its climate-responsive infrastructure, reform the meteorological department, and streamline the coordination between the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Climate Change Officers (CCOs).
- Interdependence, of course, is a fundamental law of nature. Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who survive by mutual cooperation based on an their interconnectedness.
- As India positions itself as a global leader in STEM, harnessing its untapped pool of female talent through targeted policies could drive systematic change, advancing both digital and physical equity for women worldwide.
- By including more girls and women, particularly from diverse backgrounds, on technical and scientific teams, we can ensure that the development of new technologies addresses women’s unique challenges around access, digital literacy, and online abuse.
- More than the administrative, legal and constitutional issues, the deepest problem with the ONOE is the political design inherent in it. Clearly, holding the national and state elections together would give an edge, a small to moderate vote swing, in favour of a national party and against regional parties.
ESSAY TOPIC
- Smallness adores and adorns itself – greatness is humble.
50-WORD TALK
- Sri Lanka has demonstrated democratic maturity by conducting fair and peaceful elections two years after a very bruising period of turmoil and economic difficulties. Ranil Wickremesinghe ran a stable government and oversaw the smooth transition of power to Anura Kumara Dissanayake—a process in which he lost, but the nation gained.
- By striking down Centre’s egregious “fact checking unit” as violative of Constitution, Bombay High Court has taken a virtuous stand for justice and free speech. It has again underlined why Bombay has historically been among our finest High Courts. Hope the Centre would be suitably chastened, and other courts inspired.
Things to Remember:
- For prelims-related news try to understand the context of the news and relate with its concepts so that it will be easier for you to answer (or eliminate) from given options.
- Whenever any international place will be in news, you should do map work (marking those areas in maps and exploring other geographical locations nearby including mountains, rivers, etc. same applies to the national places.)
- For economy-related news (banking, agriculture, etc.) you should focus on terms and how these are related to various economic aspects, for example, if inflation has been mentioned, try to relate with prevailing price rises, shortage of essential supplies, banking rates, etc.
- For main exam-related topics, you should focus on the various dimensions of the given topic, the most important topics which occur frequently and are important from the mains point of view will be covered in ED.
- Try to use the given content in your answer. Regular use of this content will bring more enrichment to your writing.
